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Trying to understand the "protected" keyword.
When a method has private access it can not be accessed anywhere other than its own class file. With protected I'm confused to when you can not use it because to use any method from another class you have to create a new object anyways, allowing public or protected access.
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Re: Trying to understand the "protected" keyword.
Classes in a different package can not access those protected elements. Multiple packages may be included in one project/executable jar.Originally Posted by simpson_121919
PROJECT
--packagea
---class A
----protected int safeFromClassesInB;
--packageb
---class B
---class C
No class in packageb can use the protected int
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